• Google Agrees to Change Its Business Practices and Google settles on patents, other antitrust claims – Google gets off relatively easy as the Federal Trade Commission closes its antitrust review of the search giant. Google will allow companies to opt out of searches, and will quit scraping data. Also What Google’s settlement with the
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• What It Was Like Launching the Doomed iPad Magazine The Daily and Why ‘The Daily’ Failed – News Corp. announces that its iPad-only news publication, The Daily, will close. There are many, many theories as to why, ranging from it being only on one platform to having too big a staff to simply being
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• Google Preps Maps App for Apple Devices – The Wall Street Journal says a beta version of Google Maps for iOS has been distributed outside the company, and a submission to Apple for approval is imminent. And yes, it will have turn-by-turn navigation, which the original iOS Maps app lacked. • U.S. Cable Companies
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[Note: I’m taking a few days off. Linkposts may appear sporadically or later in the day than usual. Normal programming resumes Wednesday. – D.S.] • At the moment, Microsoft Surface is hot – Suddenly, Microsoft has a product people are actually lining up to buy. And Windows 8 Day One: Steady, Not Spectacular, Store Traffic
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